Vasanth Kumar Makam

Vasanth Makam is a consultant and expert in Agile Methodologies and Computer Systems since 2010. He has more than 10 years of experience in technology management, computer systems, cloud computing and software development. He has extensive experience in cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and holds AWS certifications. Vasanth has MBA from the University of Cincinnati, he also virtually teaches Indian underprivileged students.
  • Interests: Cloud, CI/CD, Agile

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How to Restore a Snapshot in AWS RDS with the Same Name?

The demand for increasingly scalable, capable, and inexpensive database, backup, and recovery solutions has never been higher than it is now, as digital transformation reaches its pinnacle. Restoring is the process of recovering data from a backup and applying logged transactions to the data. Backups are used to restore data. Restoring returns the backup file […]

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2021-07-09

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Multiple Escape Characters

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned?

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